Frankenstein's Monster Quotes:

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Soul, Frankenstein's Monster, Shelley, Workmen, Marvellous

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

topic: Monsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Form, Frankenstein Novel

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

topic: Frankenstein's Monster, Masters, Wedding Night, Frankenstein Novel

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: "Fictional character: The Creature". "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Believe, Likes, Imagine, Shelley, Frankenstein's Monster

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

topic: Inspire, Causes, Inspire Love, Frankenstein's Monster, Frankenstein Novel

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Monsters, Miserable, Creation, Frankenstein's Monster, Frankenstein Novel

Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

- David Sedaris

topic: Girl, Flower, Evil, Frankenstein's Monster, Fifth Graders

For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.

- Robert B. Weide

topic: Games, Play, Choices, Frankenstein's Monster

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: War, Monsters, Sides, Frankenstein's Monster

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

- Howard Hodgkin

topic: Identity, Monsters, Facts, Frankenstein's Monster

We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

- Ed Ayres

topic: Real, Rights, Friendly, Frankenstein's Monster, Friendly Faces

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

- Daniel H. Wilson

topic: Meaningful, Real, Believe, Make Believe, Really Popular